Bass Harbor Lighthouse

Cami & I just walked in the door from a fantastic and relaxing week-long trek through scenic Maine. The LIGHTBENDING 411 WORKSHOP at the end of the week went great! But before I do a full write-up on that, I thought I’d post a few shots from our travels. We spent several days in Bar Harbor, taking in the hikes and views of Acadia National Park.

The first morning we were there I woke pre-dawn and drove to Bass Harbor Lighthouse to get a sun-rise shot. It was cold and windy. So I set my white-balance to a 4500K to draw out the cool tones and help evoke the mood of the morning. I have a wonderful Cokin graduated tobacco filter I like using for landscapes. But unfortunately I didn’t have it with me. So when I brought the image in to Adobe Lightroom, I created a Virtual Copy of the image, and processed the second one at a much warmer 7000K white balance. Combining the images in Adobe Photoshop allowed me to duplicate the effect of that graduated filter and brought back the natural color of the rocks while retaining the cool blue tone of the sky that I liked. I shot this in two vertical frames that were stitched together for the final image.